I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

I didn't realize that diets don't work, and I did not want to diet. I didn't want to do anything that required dieting.

Unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles.

I gotta go home and feed my eels. They're not electric, but I have a plan.

Where I'm from, you learned about God before you learned to read and write. Our faith is what grounds us.

If you go through life and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.